I''m wondering if someone has tried using Sans Digital''s Tower Raid TR8M[1] with ZFS (I''m especially curious about the bundled 2-port eSATA PCIe Host Bus Adapter) It seems like an very good expansion tower as it holds up to 8 SATA disks, but before I dish out $395 I''d like to know that it works ok :) [1] http://www.sansdigital.com/towerraid/tr8mb.html cheers, /Martin -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
It sounds like this tower uses a port multiplier to multiplex 8 drives onto two eSATA cables. I know SATA port multiplier support is being worked on, but I''m not sure if it is done yet: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=84068&tstart=0 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Martin Englund wrote:> I''m wondering if someone has tried using Sans Digital''s Tower Raid > TR8M[1] with ZFS (I''m especially curious about the bundled 2-port > eSATA PCIe Host Bus Adapter)The port multiplier issue will probably prevent this from working right now, as someone else has already mentioned. The controller card appears to use a SI 3132 chip, based on the docs, and that is supported. -- Carson